now i wonder ... ok.. so i have manually inserted a fb like button on my home page, the iframe version

and i specified floating social to not put on my pages, since i cant specifically chose to not display it on certain pages..

so then what i do is, tell floating social, to not put the button on posts either...

then i manually inserted a fb like button on a post which iv been using for testing on the facebook LINT (not like) site which has so far been telling me i have everything wrong, which when looking at the source does not appear wrong at all...

so i give it a shot, i test the url on lint, having disabled Floating Social pretty much, and all of a suddenly it works... making the culprit.. the floating social plugin !! RAAWR!! lol....

someone on the thesis forum said

I have no idea why Facebook isn't reading the meta tags - all I can think is that maybe having the LIKE button appear BEFORE the <HEAD> tag (and thus, before the <meta> tags), via this code:

not sure what that really means exactly cause i thought the like button itself would be in the Body.. but i dunno.. but maybe what she said will help someone here or maybe it wont

either way, i am pretty desperate to have a working like button and i kinda thought this would be it, even better that it floats which is sweet.. but as it turns out im having problems with it like all the other free ones..

could i get some kind of estimate as to when this could be dealt with as it seems to me to be some funky code in the plugin?

i cant afford to prolong my membership until our site is in better condition and when we release a new book.. and wait out the fix and i think i dont get updates when im no longer a member..

that will debug my home page, ( where i manually insert a facebook like button ) with the exact same open graph tags, and youll notice on the link just above that it works, it generates an image and has no errors.

Guess what? It's premium themes like this one that cause the most trouble... they often take things out of the standard hooks and filters provided by WordPress rendering plugins unable to do what should be straightforward.

Open up your header.php and make sure this code (or something very similar) is in their somewhere;<?php wp_head(); ?>

uhg... whats a really efficient frame work to use? i like how thesis has all the theme options even if it is just colors and stuff even though theres really a lot more than that... whattya thinks the next best one with seo and all that jazz in it? cause this is retarded not to mention i dont like editing core files cause we all know why thats not good..

Personally, I don't like themes that include functionality (e.g. SEO) that should be in separate plugins (like WPMU DEV SEO). Adding it all into the theme just makes it a bloated piece of software that does a lot of stuff half-heartedly instead of doing an excellent job of just being a theme. But that's me.

I've asked our Tammie if she's got an opinion to share (I'm sure she will do) on theme frameworks and what you'd be wise to check out.

yeah you know what.. you just reminded me of my own thoughts on building your own computer. aka buying the parts from companies who specialize in each specific part.. instead of say.. Dell, who manufactures their own parts when they themselves are just computer assemblers.. not in the business of creating good hard ware.. so youre right. guess seo plugins are plentiful

I don't actually like frameworks on the whole because of similar reasons to those outlined ie; nothing is a one stop solution that works. I definitely think even down to the theme avoiding generic is good. I'm starting to more and more lean to even themes that do a particular task / type of site really well.

If you do have to use a framework (and I'd question why you do) then it's really not a huge difference across the board. All have minus and all have plus points. It really comes down to what one has a theme you like.

I still say get a good solid theme don't worry about framework and then you're on track.

There is a trend lately towards open source frameworks and a couple new ones turning up. These if anything would get my recommendation as you're not tieing into a payment plan but you also get less support. It really depends on your scale but don't ever let the 'you can do as good as site as a designer' line mislead you as you won't with any framework - they can help but they don't substitute for decades of experience.

The experience thing is kind of why I say find a theme that does the job well and is designed by someone with that experience then you're starting on solid ground from the start.

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